 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...great moral poet too, will teach us the same lesson : " A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking largely sobers us again."(5) What then if Paine, who is both illiterate and immoral, insolent... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...know, make use of ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 215 drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow...intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, in fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...to know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow...the brain ; And drinking largely sobers us again, Tir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, GhapS. While, from the bounded level of our mind,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...to know, make use of ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 215 iMnk deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow...intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. frVd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, in fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or lasts not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, 219 In fcarle-s youth we tempt the heigbts of Arts,... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...friend and ev'ry foe. A little learning is- a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Ifterian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. POPE. The Country Ale-house. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where, once, the sign-post... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...friend—and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean Spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; 215 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 200... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...nossos deffeitos Consultemos amigos, e enimigos. A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; 215 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, ]n fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...to this passage when he penned the well-known lines: A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; ,, There shallow...intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again. that he can thoroughly believe it, for none deny that there is a God, but those for whom it maketh... | |
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again. 
